Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

Advocate Health has been aiming to take cognitive and documentation load off its nursing staff by implementing AI and virtual nursing. The Charlotte, N.C.-based health system recently launched Project ...

The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it's perhaps not surprising that ...

Documentation and assessments are crucial to following patients’ progress. One action research project radically changed processes to improve patient care Abstract Lees L (2010) An action research ...

Is it just me, or is nursing documentation lacking something? I mean, I don’t expect a nurse to write a book, but I don’t want to play Sherlock Holmes when I am trying to read a nurse’s notes, either.

Nurses in the Welsh NHS are set to adopt a new country-wide digital system for patient documentation in a bid to become more time efficient, improve accuracy and reduce unnecessary duplications. The ...

Hand-in-hand with real-time charting is point-of-care documentation, representing another change in nurses' workflow ushered in by EHRs. The idea is that computer workstations would be located in ...